222 Do You Like What You Say?

More Specific Statements Private Workshop $222

In this offering I spend 2-3 hours working with you to get specific about your art work and practice in writing. This is for you if you struggle to get words on the page when you are writing about yourself and your work, or if you tend to leave your statements vague or ambiguous for fear of boxing yourself in or leaving something out. In the first hour we look at documentation of your work together. You describe your process, what the work means to you, the ideas you’re working with and the materials you’re using. We use the second hour to generate unedited writing in response to the conversation we just had. The purpose of this time is to get as much information onto the page as possible without structuring or self monitoring for flow or eloquence. The third hour is for editing the material together into a refined statement. If you already have a statement you want to edit, we spend the second hour adjusting it together, deepening the language, and expanding on ideas with more specific language. This can fill into the 3rd hour if necessary or in some cases we use the third hour to start something new that you carry out on your own. The hours can be done in one session or broken up over two days with the editing block being separated from the discussion and generative writing session. This workshop can be modified for people in trades or other professions less frequently classified “in the arts”